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Villains/organizations who kidnap children to clone them?
gradii
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Teleios comes to mind as one possible villain who might try this for some experiment if he deemed the child in question fit for his experiments. but who else?
My main character's story includes her being kidnapped as a one year old, and cloned with the clone being raised by villains in order to serve as their pawn. (apparently the perpetrators somehow knew she would have her superpowers before anyone else, possibly a telepath read her mind and saw the secrets of the universe embedded in her psyche which are what give her her powers. normally contact with her mind would kill even the most powerful telepaths instantly, but at that young age it probably wasn't deadly yet)
so any ideas? finally working on her primus page and would like some in universe info if possible.
also she was rescued by a superhero or team of heroes from the United states, but I haven't decided who. any ideas?
My main character's story includes her being kidnapped as a one year old, and cloned with the clone being raised by villains in order to serve as their pawn. (apparently the perpetrators somehow knew she would have her superpowers before anyone else, possibly a telepath read her mind and saw the secrets of the universe embedded in her psyche which are what give her her powers. normally contact with her mind would kill even the most powerful telepaths instantly, but at that young age it probably wasn't deadly yet)
so any ideas? finally working on her primus page and would like some in universe info if possible.
also she was rescued by a superhero or team of heroes from the United states, but I haven't decided who. any ideas?
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Next to Teleios, Dr. Destroyer is probably the foremost geneticist on Earth. Cloning human DNA is explicitly noted as within his capabilities (aside from his own). This sort of scheme is right up his alley; note that Menton and Mentalla were raised and trained to serve Destroyer. If you use him you would probably want the kidnapping to occur before the Battle of Detroit in 1992; the clone would have been raised by agents loyal to the Doctor, perhaps under Rakshasa's supervision.
Another possibility is VIPER. The snakes are always conducting genetic experiments to try to create superhumans, often involving adolescents, children, even fetuses. While few of these have produced reliable results, they have had a few random successes. Over the past ten or fifteen years, their youthful superhuman creations have been streamed into the super branch of "Generation VIPER," a global project to indocrinate the next generation of VIPER operatives.
It's also possible that a given villain or group might have hired someone to clone the child for them. Teleios's services are for hire. So are ARGENT's, and they probably have the necessary scientific expertise. With one of these parties doing the cloning for them, the list of possible culprits becomes much longer. (I doubt that ARGENT would have done this for themselves, though. They're more suppliers to others.) Kidnapping children to raise them as operatives is a significant M.O. of PSI, although they're focussed on people with psionic powers, or the potential for them.
As for rescuers, stumbling onto a villainous scheme by random chance is stock-in-trade for nearly every comic-book superhero.
Suggestion for a kidnapper: Istvatha V'han. The Empress of a Billion Dimensions first invaded Earth in 1998, and had operatives on the planet even earlier. V'han herself has dimension-crossing powers, and is always concerned about other beings who travel transdimensionally or transtemporally. She has a huge number of superhumans in her service, and while she prefers to recruit them willingly she won't hesitate to use Draconian measures to get someone she wants or needs. She also has access to sciences more advanced than most in the setting, so cloning would pose no problem.
Suggestion for a rescuer: The Drifter. One of the most powerful "good" mystics in the world, the Drifter has the innate ability to "drift" across dimensions, as well as far-reaching mystic senses and precognitive visions. He's also been an active superhero since the late 1930s.
V'han could absolutely have shapeshifters working on this project -- she has millions of different species under her rule, including alternate-universe versions of species existing in the dimension of Champions Earth. I'm just unclear as to the timeline of events, and what whoever took your character was doing with her, and her clone, between then and now. IMHO defining the kidnappers' M.O. will go a long way to pinning down a motivation, which would in turn point toward likely culprits.
Does that sound workable?
What do you want the clone's past to have been like? What are/were her attitudes, and the events in her life that shaped them? Why did she become your character's nemesis -- what was the basis for their adversarial relationship? What was the "lie" the clone believed about her past?
With the circumstances clarified, it'll be easier to match them to the lore.
Or was the entire point of trying to eliminate the original with said clone was to try to acquire said secret in the first place?
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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Yeah, I can see that working in a comic book, although if you were a player at a table where I was DMing I might suggest that perhaps the original's powers actually came from the cosmic secret warping her DNA / brain structures in order to make a better nesting place as well.
If the cloners wanted to use the clone as an infiltrator -- and Istvatha V'han often works in such subtle ways -- it would make sense not to deploy her in the field until your character was grown and had started her career as a superhero. Replacing someone who already has a reputation would make it far likelier that she'd be accepted and have access to sensitive places and people. V'han is immortal, so is very patient.